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Throughout the first half of the varsity contest a flip of the coin would have been as good as anybody's guess as to the game's outcome, for at the half the Green was leading 6-5. Near the end of the third quarter, however, John Ogden, star Crimson goalie, was struck by a loose Dartmouth lacrosse stick and had to leave the game...
...Coin of Vantage. In Mt. Morris, N.Y., Mayor Craig Shurtleff sought reelection, wound up in a tie with Serafine La Delfa, sadly agreed to resign after Village Board Trustee Ray Brady flipped a coin and declared La Delfa the winner...
Lights does more deep and tender credit to the human race than this one. Like a penny in the gutter, a heart catches the light. It isn't much, and there are millions like it, but it's coin of the realm, and only a proud child, no matter what his age, will pass...
...trip south, which took him over some 3,500 kilometers of flinty desert innocent of all roads, was an astonishing testimonial to the durability not only of the King himself but of his fleet of U.S. autos, including the trucks in which he carried heavy bags of silver coin for distribution along the way. "In our country," says one of his loyal retainers, "it is necessary that the people see the King. In the old days it was the tradition that the people come to the King. Now the King comes to the people...
...Breland believes that zoo animals should be trained to perform instinctive acts when given a triggering signal. In a Breland-type zoo, the spectator could put a nickel in a slot if he wanted to see the monkeys dance or the hippo plunge into his pool. For a larger coin, a quarter perhaps, he might see a lion charge out of a thicket and leap with hideous roars on a simulated gazelle...